HI- He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia.

40-6Jesse Jackson

an American civil rights activist andBaptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.

HI- founder for rainbow push

40-7Michael Dukakis

governor of Massachusetts from 1975-1979

HI-longest serving governor of omassachusetts.

40-8Boris Yeltsin

first president of the Russian Confederation.

HI- first democratic voted in president in russia

40-9Saddam Hussein

fifth President ofIraq, serving in this capacity from 1979 until 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.

40-10Clarence Thomas

n Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall,

Hi-the second African American to serve on the Court.

40-11Anita Hill

professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School and former colleague of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

HI- said that her supervisor Thomas had made provocative and harassing sexual statements.

12"supply-side" economics

Economic theory that emphasizes the usage of tax breaks for the upper brackets to great economic stimulus for the lower tiers of the nation.

HI= Concept used by the Reagan administration to promote economic growth.

13Perestroika

Political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

HI= The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.

14Glasnost

Policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s.

15new religious right

Term used predominantly in the United States of America to describe right-wing Christian individuals and organizations characterized by their strong support of public polices of social conservatism.

HI= Became an outspoken voice in politics in the latter half of the 20th century.

16identity politics

Political arguments that focus upon the self interest of interest groups and ways in which people's politics may be shaped by aspects of their identity.

HI= Not all members of any given group are necessarily involved in identity politics.

18ethnic cleansing

is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.

HI- used by fascist groups in the balkan peninsula

19Reaganomics

refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, also known as supply-side economics and pejoratively as trickle-down economics.

HI Reduce Government spending., Reduce Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax, Reduce Government regulation,Control the money supply to reduce inflation

20yuppies

young urban professional, term that refers to a member of themiddle class in their 20s or 30s during the 80's

HI- caused rebellion

21Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")

1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The main idea focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction

22Iran-Contra Affair

political scandal

HI- senior Reagan Administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo

23Planned Parenthood v. Casey

A case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the constitutionality of several Pennsylvania state regulations regarding abortion were challenged.

HI= The Court's plurality opinion upheld the constitutional right to have an abortion

24Operation Desert Storm

beginning the long land war in Iraq. it lasted 4 days.

HI saddam accepted cease fire. and kuwait was liberated.

25Americans With Disabilities Act

The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances,discrimination based on disability

HI- intended to give broader protections for disabled workers

26"gender gap"

gap between men and women. the women who grew increasingly critical of th e presidents uncompromising stand on abortion

HI- they split and pro women became cool towards the anti abortion stand of republicans. .

27, newt gingrich

American politician who served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999

HI-helped speak his way into ending the 40 year democratic presidency run

28, kenneth starr

n American lawyer and educational administrator who has also been a federal judge.

HI-He is best known for his investigation of figures during the Clinton administration.

29, ralph nader

an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and four-time candidate for President of the United States

HI- ran for the a Green Party

30, "culture wars"

used to claim that political conflict is based on sets of conflicting cultural values.

HI-The term frequently implies a conflict between those values considered traditional or conservative and those consideredprogressive or liberal.

31 "unfunded mandates"

32 globalizaion

process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade

hI- through internet and faster transportation, the world started getting close

33 red and blue states

2000 to refer to those statesof the United States whose residents predominantly vote for the Republican Party orDemocratic Party presidential candidates

HI- red is republican, blue democratic

34 axis of evil

term used by the former United States President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address on 2002.

HI- used to describe governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction.

35 new democrats

ideologically centrist faction within t democratic party that emerged after the victory of republican gorge H bush in the 1988 presidential election.

HI- they are identified with mjore pragmatic and centrist social cultural pluralist positions and neoligeral fiscal values.

36 brady bill

part of the brady hand gun bill was an Act of the United States Congress that, for the first time, instituted federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States.

37branch davidians

Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists

HI-widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property near Waco, Texas. the FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh as well as 82 other Branch Davidians

38 contract with america

Contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.

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world trade organization (WTO)

organization that intends to supervise andliberalize international trade.

HI- organized and helped liberalize trade through out the world

whitewater

politics controversy that began with the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation,

HI- failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s

al qaeda

militant Islamist group founded sometime between August 1988, It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad

taliban

an Islamist militia group that ruled large parts of Afghanistan from September 1996 onwards.

HI- The Act dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial; eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States

enron and world com

Companies that went down in the early 2000 due to financial corruption.

HI- were examples of the financial corruption going on in the nation befor the recession.